Faculty - Criminal Justice and Criminologyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/5373
This collection features scholarly work by faculty members in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 01:21:48 GMT2019-01-22T01:21:48ZPolicing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeleshttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/5382
Policing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeles
Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks—the territorial imperative and community partnership—which remain central more than 20 years later. At the same time, LA has undergone a significant black-to-Latino demographic shift linked with its restructured economy. This article discusses these changes using archival analysis and 5 years of participant observation in one South LA precinct. Police help to reshape the demography of South LA in ways conducive to post-Fordist economic shifts. The “community” concept appropriated by urban governance initiatives is composed against the unwanted “anticommunity,” which serves to heighten territorial control over black and Latino residents. Rather than encourage community cogovernance over the institution of policing, community rhetoric facilitates racial preference in neighborhood transition under the auspices of an increasingly bifurcated labor market.
This article is a post-print copy. Per publisher requirements, it is embargoed until January 2018. For more information contact Aaron Roussell at a.roussell@wsu.edu.
Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/53822015-01-01T00:00:00ZDefining “policeability”: Cooperation, control, and resistance in South Los Angeles community police meetingshttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/5380
Defining “policeability”: Cooperation, control, and resistance in South Los Angeles community police meetings
Community policing partnerships are built and maintained by community meetings wherein participants coproduce social order by identifying local problems and devising strategies for their reduction and resolution. Coproduction is a dynamic process of meaning construction that takes place through social interaction. These interactions build toward a mutually satisfactory discourse on local definitions of law, crime, and order. This discourse creates a set of understandings about what citizens interpret as problems, disorder, and crime, as well as police officers’ ability to address these issues using a range of enforcement and non-enforcement strategies. Through this interactive process, police and residents define the “policeability” of residents’ interpretations. Drawing on literature in symbolic interactionism, we chart a course for unpacking the contest over policeable discourse using ethnographic data gathered over a four-year period in community-police meetings in South Los Angeles. This paper explores participants’ roles and explicates the process of defining policeability through a set of ideal-type interactions (cooperation, control, and resistance). Power, in this setting, is control over the definition of policeability. Residents are locked into a supplicatory role, while officers are akin to legal brokers, accepting, rejecting, or reframing residents’ claims of crime and disorder. Our findings suggest that, in this precinct, while the rhetoric of cooperation abounds, pessimism on the part of policing scholars about the claims toward true partnership are warranted with respect to the power police retain and express in police-citizen interactions.
Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/53802014-01-01T00:00:00ZParadise lost: White flight, broken windows, and the construction of a criminogenic origin mythhttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/5379
Paradise lost: White flight, broken windows, and the construction of a criminogenic origin myth
This presentation deconstructs narratives about crime, pointing to racist assumptions in narratives that are framed as colorblind. This presentation occurred at the meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, 2014.
Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/53792014-01-01T00:00:00ZThe “Territorial Imperative” and Problem Solving Partnerships: LAPD Defines Communityhttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/5376
The “Territorial Imperative” and Problem Solving Partnerships: LAPD Defines Community
This presentation, delivered in 2013 for the American Society of Criminology, considers community-based policing and its use in Los Angeles, California. The presentation considers the effect of community-based policing on racial and social interactions in a given community.
Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2376/53762013-01-01T00:00:00Z